WASHBURN, William Barrett, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts;
born in Winchendon, Worcester County, Mass., January 31, 1820;
attended Westminster and Hancock Academies and graduated from Yale College in 1844;
employed as a store clerk 1844-1847;
engaged in manufacturing pursuits in Erving, Franklin County, Mass., 1847-1857;
member, State senate 1850;
member, State house of representatives 1853-1855;
moved to Greenfield in 1858 and engaged in banking;
elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1863, to December 5, 1871, when he resigned, having been elected Governor;
chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-first Congress);
Governor of Massachusetts 1872-1874, when he resigned, having been elected a Senator;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Charles Sumner and served from April 17, 1874, to March 3, 1875;
was not a candidate for reelection;
president of the Greenfield National Bank;
member of the board of trustees of several colleges;
director of the Connecticut River Railroad;
died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., October 5, 1887;
interment in Green River Cemetery, Greenfield, Franklin County, Mass.